Ever since I started drawing the creature in the late ’70s and early ’80s, I knew I didn’t want symmetric scars and I didn’t want sutures or clamps,” del Toro said to Variety. “What I thought was very interesting was to make him like a jigsaw puzzle.

Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited Frankenstein is almost here. Netflix is giving the $120M movie one of its biggest theatrical releases yet, which explores themes of family and humanity.